Ming Chengzu immigrated to Shaanxi.

Hongtong County, Shanxi Province is famous not only for Su San's story, but also for many immigrants under the big pagoda tree in the early Ming Dynasty. For more than 600 years, the ancient pagoda in Hongdong has been regarded as the ancestral tower by more than 100 million Chinese people at home and abroad, calling it the hometown and the land of ancestral roots. Because the ancestors of many Chinese children migrated from the ancient locust tree.

Wang Quangen, a professor at Beijing Normal University, said: "At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, due to frequent wars in the Central Plains, the population decreased sharply and the land was barren. According to historical statistics, the combined population of Hebei, Henan and Shandong provinces was not as large as that of Shanxi Province. Therefore, in order to recuperate, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty made a decision in the early Ming Dynasty, mainly from Shanxi to Hebei to the Central Plains. "

Jinnan is a densely populated place in Shanxi, and Hongdong was the largest and most populous county in Jinnan at that time. According to records, there was a Guangji Temple on the west side of Jia Cun, two miles north of Hongdong in Ming Dynasty. The temple is grand and magnificent, and there are many monks and pilgrims. There is a "tree surrounded by mu of shade" next to the temple, and the avenue of chariots and horses passes through the shade. The old harriers on Fenhe beach nest in the trees and are scattered all over the floor, which is very spectacular. In the Ming Dynasty, a bureau was set up in Guangji Temple to deal with immigrants centrally, and under the pagoda tree, immigrants gathered.

According to the records of the past and the future, there were 18 large-scale immigrants under the pagoda tree in the west of Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, and millions of Shanxi immigrants moved to more than 400 provinces and cities across the country through the immigration agency under the pagoda tree in Hongdong County.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the immigrants who moved out of Hongdong and other places in Shanxi mainly distributed in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing, Anhui and Jiangsu, and a few moved to Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. Immigrants who moved from Shanxi to the above places later moved to Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Xinjiang and northeast provinces. It is rare to have organized large-scale migration for such a long time in the history of our country, and it is only a case that people on one side are scattered around. Although the policy of promoting agriculture by emigration in Ming Dynasty aimed at consolidating the rule of feudal dynasty, it objectively eased social contradictions, mobilized farmers' enthusiasm for production, gradually restored agricultural production, consolidated border defense and maintained social stability.

Legend has it that when immigrating, officers and men cut each little toenail with a knife. Up to now, the little toenails of the descendants of Sophora japonica immigrants are all complicated (two petals). "。" If you are interested, you may wish to check it yourself.

On the way to escort, because of the long distance, people often have to pee, so they have to report to the officers and men: "Sir, please help yourself, I have to pee." The more times, the more simplified the verbal request. As long as you say "Sir, I want to relieve myself", everyone will understand that you have to pee. Since then, "jieshou" has become synonymous with peeing, which is still in use today.

A big pagoda tree has a thousand generations of souls. Now, the ancient pagoda tree that began in the Han Dynasty no longer exists, but the large-scale immigration activities under the pagoda tree have been branded in the minds of the descendants of immigrants under the tree. After hundreds of years of development and evolution, Sophora japonica in Hong Tong has become a symbol of roots and home. "Ask where my ancestors went? There is a folk song circulating in the vast area of Hebei Province: "Where did my ancestors come from? "Shanxi Hongdong big locust tree." "Ask me what's the name of my hometown? The old man's nest under the big banyan tree. "